[4] Thomas Mann viewed the whole business of school gymnastics with intense dislike, but could on occasion be persuaded to compromise his principals to the extent of touching the horizontal exercise bars with his fingertips, while casting a look of withering contempt at the equipment.

[5] Later, when they were all grown up and Holm had joined a publishing business, he intervened to help Mann obtain work with the Munich-based satirical magazine "Simplicissimus".

[4] Holm was already 21 during the early summer of 1894 when, at a slightly older age than was conventional, he passed his "Reifeprüfung" ("Matriculation" - school graduation exam).

[1] Soon after arriving in Munich he enrolled as an "Einjährig-Freiwilliger" for military service with the Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment, under a scheme which permitted applicants to undertake their military service over a reduced duration of just one year, provided they agreed to pay their own costs in respect of equipment, food and clothing.

In any event, shortly after publishing some of Holm's poems, Langen agreed that the young man could help him, starting on 1 October 1896, as an unpaid internee.

[7] Langen himself had married the nineteen year-old Dagny Bjørnson Sautreau in 1896, after which it seems that Holm was encouraged to take more responsibility within the business.

By 1898 Korfiz Holm had gained his employer's confidence to the point at which he became a "Prokurist", contractually authorised to sign off certain agreements on behalf of Langen's publishing business.

During the next few years titles by Heinrich Mann, Henrik Ibsen, Marcel Prévost and Verner von Heidenstam were published.

Holm remained in post as "Mitgeschäftsführer" (loosely, "Joint-CEO") of the combined publishing firm "Albert Langen — Georg Müller Verlag GmbH" till his death in 1942.